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I think Mr Buchanan is also guilty of “cherry picking” from history in order to suit his own political agenda. The Prussians surrounded Paris which led to mass starvation and an eventual bloody Civil war. Revenge for the humiliation of France by the Prussians and the later...

Hitler didn't have any enemies (apart from his political opponents in Germany) until he created them by his own policies. Hitler had declared his intentions against Bolshevism in Mein Kampf so it was clear to anybody who had read that work that he would turn against Russia. During the Russian...

Not sure from whence you got this information but it's a very generalised account of early 20th century British history. The reality is, of course, far more complex than such simplified accounts would suggest.

This is an interesting discussion, given that in this month’s Freethinker magazine, an article has been published about Steven L Anderson the founder of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe Arizona in which Mr Anderston stated in a radio interview that anybody who killed President...

When did archaelogists per se ever attempt to 'prove the Bible'? Archaeology is a massive discipline and doesn't just concern itself with the area around Palestine. There are some so called 'biblical archaeologists' who get their funding from large (mainly US) Christian organisations and these...

We have to bear in mind the great fear of Catholicism at this juncture in history. The two Super-Powers of the time were Catholic and James’ mother had been Catholic. Anti-Catholic feeling was strong (the Armada was only 17 years previously) and it has been posited that the whole plot was...

I also qualified my remark if you recall by writing 'in some situations'. I was not therefore advocating physical chastisement as a general rule to be applied in every situation. However, I hold to the view that with some of these smug little so-and-sos who live with the view that 'I can do...

Isn't it a little late in the year for cuckoos?

Corporal punishmentwas banned in UK schools in 1987. I assume your comments as a parent were jocular but too many parents adopt such an attitude for the merest slight against their 'little angel'. A headteacher in Birmimgham had to temporarily employ bodyguards after a parent attacked her...

Point taken - no one wants to return to an era when children were beaten, often for minor offences. However, we now live in a society where in far too many cases the notion that 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' prevails amongst many children and adults. Amongst the young in...

The converse question to that 'challenge' is, would you know enough about science to understand the answer? :) Given your later admission that: You are clearly uninterested in any credible scientific evidence, argument or theory and whatever is provided you will dismiss because it...

There is a well-known joke here in Europe about what Noah did with all the animal excrement from the ark but politeness towards my American 'cousins' prevents me from repeating it. ;)

You appear unwilling to accept that the Genesis accounts are merely two examples of the many creation myths that exist throughout various human cultures. As I have illustrated not only do these accounts contradict each other but so do other parts of the OT. Genesis 6 & 7 are further...

So, if I have understood you correctly you are postulating that your deity has no over-all control? I ask again, why call it God?

"And answer came there none". I suspected as much.

Unfortunately you appear to be doing precisely that. I think you are trying to introduce some ‘red herrings’. This is merely from one translation of the Hebrew (KJV). Below is the Genesis 1.1. text from a selection of English translations. New American Standard Bible: 1(A)In...

Sadly and quite astonishingly there ARE qualified scientists who believe some of these dotty ideas re: creationism and a young earth. The following British site http://bcseweb.org.uk/ is dedicated to keeping Creationism out of the British science classroom. It lists those working in...

You are, presumably, aware, that this idea is of very recent origin?

That is merely your own subjective interpretation. Yet in the NRSV translation the text clearly states that: These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet...

Read my earlier comment: How can such a Being therefore be described, by those that believe in it, as benign and loving?